She had recently bought some WORK Rezaxs for her DC5 Integra,” he tells us. “I wanted some dished wheels, but didn’t really have any idea what I wanted until I started speaking to my best mate, Lauren Penfold. “I’d bought it by Saturday lunchtime!” Apart from the frosty new paint job, the V6 sports car was bone stock and a great platform for our man here to step up his car game.Īside from a set of coilovers to get the car sitting a little friendlier with the tarmac, Jamie enjoyed the car in its standard guise for around a year, before beginning to take things to the next level. “I was having a Chinese with my dad one Friday evening and saw a white, re-sprayed Z on Auto Trader only 20 miles from my house,” Jamie remembers. There was just one teeny problem: white 350Zs were only available as an optional extra in the UK, and sold only after 2008 for a couple of years before the 370Z came along, making them about as easy to find as a polar bear in Piccadilly Circus… A fantastic car choice, no doubt about it. “In the summer of 2014, I’d recently moved back to my hometown of Wiltshire and was on the lookout for a white 350Z,” he continues. It wasn’t long before the compact hatchback life began getting a little too mundane for enthusiastic Jamie, who had his sights set a little higher with his next move on the car ownership chess board. “I started off with an Inbetweeners-spec Fiat Cinquecento, before moving onto a Lupo, Citroën C2 and then a Polo,” says our Nissan sales exec owner, highlighting how his car story started out fairly predictably, before things got out of hand. This puts into perspective, then, just how downright crazy the specs on Jamie Barry’s rims are on his 350Z here – 12 inches up front, and a steam roller-esque 15 inches out back! But this car is about much more than just its stunning, dish-heavy wheels. Rewind back to the 1990s and perform the same task on a car such as the Ferrari F40 or Lambo Diablo, and you might just manage to find something as bonkers wide as 13 inches out back at a push. If you were to head to your local Porsche dealership right now armed with a tape measure, planning on finding the very widest wheels possible from throughout the range, you’d come away with a fairly healthy reading of 12.5 inches from the phat rears of the tasty 911 GT3 RS. Say hello to Jamie’s modified Nissan 350Z: undoubtedly one of the widest show cars the country’s ever seen… Rocket Bunny kit, trick body wrap and some extremely dished WORK rims.
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